Mia Heavener brings more than 20 years of civil engineering and construction experience to the APU Board of Trustees. She is a tribal member of the Clarks Point Village Council and is a shareholder of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Fine Arts degree in English/Writing from Colorado State University.

She is a registered licensed Professional Civil Engineer at ANTHC and has managed multiple sanitation design projects for Alaska Native communities throughout the state.  She is a member of the American Water Works Association and the American Society of Civil Engineers.

In her spare time, she loves to write, run, hike and commercial fish with her family in Bristol Bay.  She is the author of the novel Under Nushagak Bluff, and her short fiction has appeared in Cortland Review, Willow Springs, Fjords Review, and Smokelong Quarterly.